Finally managed to get out to the HKW and am ready to listen to my first panel of the festival.
Moderator Rose White
With:
Francesco WARBEAR Macarone Palmieri
Staphanie Rothenberg
Jeff Crouse
Isaac Leung
Stephanie and Jeff will perform as part of the Laborors of Love.
Stephanie Rothenberg's presentation:
There were 97 billion dollars in porn revenue in 2006 but the porn industry has gone into a major decline since then. 4cam, YouPorn, etc even regualr social media is used by sex workers to promote their work. Porn is looking for a new business model.
Jeff and Stephanie had a sweatshop in real life and in second life. The virtual sweatshop made real Double Happpiness brand jeans. More info behind this link.
Another new business model starting up at the same time was the Mechanical Turk by Amazon.
HIT=Human Intelligence task, which is the Amazon terminology.
Artificial artificial intelligence is when something looks automated but is not.
Labors of love--why not stimulate the economy while stimulating yourself?
Presentation by Jeff Crouse
The Labors of Love site is launching here at the festival. This is an interface for sending your sexual fantasies to Mechanical Turk for the making of videos.
So, mechanical turk workers find videos and the site automatically montages them together. You can then see a map of where people are looking at your request and the status of it. The whole process takes 40-60 minutes.
They are interested in what kind of creative license the Mechanical Turk worker takes. Mechanical Turk has a ten-minute limit for completing a task.
(This moderator says um a lot.)
Francesco too many names presentation
This is a hip dude. Pluto is a queer entity. It's identity makes us uncomfortable. How do we know that Pluto wants to be identified?
Barbara Degenevieve did "the hot bods of queer porn." Her manifesto goes like so: Porn is made to get people off. This requires objectification. Embrace the need to fetishize and be fetishized.
What is netporn? by Katrien Jacobs is a media studies professor and netporn conference organizer. Netporn is defined as an interzone. Altporn. DIY ethics. Alternative channesl, etc. An authenitc body is uncontrolled, unprofessional, etc.
Real Core--Sergio Messina. Real Core was born in photo-based discussion groups in the early 90s. Happy, authentic porn. Mostly at home, mostly normal people in normal life. The feeling of trespassing into someone's privacy is part of the thrill.
But really, authenticity is a product. Authenticity is fake.
Isaac Leung presentation
Isaac researched sex machines. He showed an interview with an artist whose name I didn't catch. "Americans are inventors..." of fucking machines.
He looked at three kinds of machines.
Garage culture fucking machines is one kind. Many of them are not even used, the pleasure is a lot in the building of it.
Second type is Teledildonics, which is a mediated sex via phone and internet. Often takes more than one real human. For example, connecting a dido to a videogame controller, Thrill Hammer, Sex Machine Cams, essage, oh my bot.
Third type = sex robots. First Androids in Nuremberg makes complicated sex robots.
PLEASURE VS DISCIPLINE
Michel Foucoult
Chastity devices have evolved into sex toys.